The Ballad of Rosalie           Cody Canada    Capo 2

D chord & bass notes of    A  C D F C D     repeating

D (xx0232@1)                         C (x32010@1)           DShe (xx0232@1)was hanging in a pawn shop in Memphis, TN. 
  C (x32010@1)                 G (320003@1)                    DShe (xx0232@1)was young & high strung her name was Rosalie,
   D (xx0232@1)                               C (x32010@1)          DHer (xx0232@1)neck was long & slender, they said all the pearls are fine,
   C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)                    DI (xx0232@1)gave up my wedding ring so I could make her mine,
    D (xx0232@1)                                                      
Then she rode with me to Nashville, where we joined a 
C (x32010@1)                              D (xx0232@1)                                   
Country band, played a thousand different honky tonks
   G (320003@1)                    D (xx0232@1)           D (xx0232@1)                      
And a thousand one night stands, Thru good times & ss
            C (x32010@1)              D (xx0232@1)               C||
the bad times she gives me company, she made a nice -i
     G (320003@1)                    Dsweet (xx0232@1)home with me my little Rosalie,

Chorus  D (xx0232@1)    C (x32010@1)    G (320003@1)   D (xx0232@1)      C (x32010@1)   G (320003@1)       D (xx0232@1)   
Rosalie, Rosalie, Rosalie, no one else got so close to me
   C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)                   DAlthough (xx0232@1)there has been others, there will never be, 
    C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)               D (xx0232@1)           CAnother (x32010@1)one quite like my little Rosalie, No there will
  G (320003@1)                        DNever (xx0232@1)be another one like my Rosalie,

2nd verse D (xx0232@1)                    C (x32010@1)            DWell (xx0232@1)the money wasn't good, it was few & far between,
C (x32010@1)                         G (320003@1)                       DBut (xx0232@1)then he'd start drinkin' & the fiddle split the scene
   D (xx0232@1)                     C (x32010@1)                   DOld (xx0232@1)Rosie stood besides me, thru the highs & the lows
    C (x32010@1)                   G (320003@1)                 DAnd (xx0232@1)I was playing in a band, paying thru the nose

Solo
 D (xx0232@1)                                 C (x32010@1)                DWell (xx0232@1)I left her where I found her, and I walked out with a gun
      C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                    DI (xx0232@1)was half cocked & loaded I went looking for someone
    D (xx0232@1)                          C (x32010@1)                  DThen (xx0232@1)I came back in the springtime, I promised her I would
   C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                 DBut (xx0232@1)Rosalie long gone, this time it was for good,

Chorus         3rd verse
     D (xx0232@1)                         C (x32010@1)              DThen (xx0232@1)late last night in the evening, I saw her on T V
      C (x32010@1)                G (320003@1)                   DAnother (xx0232@1)guitar man was a holding my pretty Rosalie,
    D (xx0232@1)                   C (x32010@1)                       DHer (xx0232@1)neck was long & slender, and her body curves so fine,
        C (x32010@1)                  G (320003@1)                D (xx0232@1)        
I weep & now remember when sweet Rosalie was mine,

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